Forwarded in case this is of interest to anyone who does not subscribe to the LITA-L list.
I've glanced at the freely available Prologue and Chapter 1 [of Everything is Miscellaneous]
http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/samples/
and it looks interesting, certainly worth a discussion in the coffee-break. There seem to be no revolutionary ideas (remember I've only read the Prologue and Chapter 1). Vannevar Bush would recognise the basic ideas. There are resonances of Paul Feyerabend's Against Method. I can also detect ideas from Ludwig Wittgenstein (the impossibility of a leak proof definition [my description]), and faint echoes of Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness theorems. It also fits with published ideas of my own but I won't bore you with those :-) .
Actually not bad for just the Prologue and Chapter 1 of a book on classification! I look forward to reading the rest of the book.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent, UK.
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Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:12 am
Subject: [lita-l] Announcement: Online Interview with David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous
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